Jigawa Govt approves N615m for youths in date palm production
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The Jigawa Government has approved N615million to empower youths in date palm production.
The state Commissioner for Information, Youth and Sports, Mr Sagir Musa, made this known on Wednesday while briefing newsmen after the weekly executive council meeting.
The initiative, he said, aims to boost the state’s agricultural sector, particularly date palm cultivation, and create employment opportunities for the youth.
“The project is expected to engage youth for an intensive training on date palm cultivation, aimed at providing direct and indirect employment to 5,000 youths.
“This is part of Gov. Umar Namadi’s administration’s commitment, to reposition Jigawa as a key player in agriculture, especially in date production and to enhance its contribution to Nigeria’s economy,” the commissioner said.
Musa said that a Date Palm Plantation Committee set up by the state government, identified six sites based on the availability and suitability for the propagation of the date plantation across the state.
The project according to him, will also serve as an economically driven strategy for climate change mitigation, preventing of desert encroachment and poverty alleviation in the state.
Meanwhile, the commissioner said that the state executive council received a progress report from a committee on the Retrieval of Farmland Allocations led by the Secretary to the State Government, Malam Bala Ibrahim.
The report, he said, has details of the committee’s ongoing efforts to recover unauthorised occupation of government owned lands and encroachment of reserves across the state in line with the state’s development agenda.
“It has outlined significant strides made in identifying and reclaiming farmlands that were previously illegally allocated but left undeveloped or misused.
“This initiative is part of the administration’s broader strategy, to ensure that all available agricultural resources are fully utilised to support food security, create employment and promote sustainable economic growth across the state.
“It will also safeguard the integrity of all grazing reserves and protect the gazette forest reserves across the state and beyond,” Musa said. (NAN)(www.nannews.ng)
Edited by Sadiya Hamza
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